The Atacama Desert is country that wears quiet like a skin. Stretching through the top 600 miles of Chile, it is so spare of all save earth and rock that it calls to mind bone stripped of flesh by sun, wind, teeth. It is a place that makes you understand why the painter Georgia O’Keeffe […]
Month: May 2018
If you are feeling down, or housebound or just uninspired, there are few better salves than a drive. First, put on comfortable pants. Then get in the car and drive to the nearest highway. Choose any direction; it usually doesn’t matter. Set your cruise control to 65. After a few minutes, the right angles of […]
In 2013, I attended a lecture by Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a physician who believes vaccination is the cause of many, many evils. Four years later, Palevsky is still railing against vaccines. His latest newsletter, which arrived in my inbox a couple of days ago, highlights a story that celebrates the defeat of several vaccine bills […]
